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Sharif abdel kouddous. Then showdown at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Who will become the acting watchdog . Cordray step down. Namingimmediately after Leandra English, President Trump said he planned to go ahead with his own appointment of budget director Mick Mulvaney im who has voted in favor of killing the bureau. Suing. Lish is who will show up at work today . Then can the emergence of nontraditional candidates help revive faltering Democratic Party that is facing his lowest Approval Rating and nearly quartercentury . We will speak with democrats who on key races with grassroots sources outside the Democratic Party in november. In short, North Carolina, Braxton Winston is a former middle School Football coach who took to the streets in 2015 to along with hundreds of people to protest police reality. His win militant secure the second highest number of votes for an atlarge Charlotte City council seat. It was a moment when the fear of what could happen changed to that weg of empowerment are doing the right thing. Amy we will also speak with lee carter, a former marine who unseated the republican majority whip of virginias house of delegates. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Egypt has declared three days of National Mourning after at least 305 people were killed in an attack on a crowded sufi mosque in egypts Sinai Peninsula on friday. Egyptian officials are calling it the deadliest terror attack in egypts modern history. On monday, more than two dozen attackers wearing military combat uniforms detonated a bomb inside the mosque, opened fire with machine guns on fleeing worshipers, and set cars ablaze to stop people from being able to escape. Among the victims were at least 27 children. This happened on friday. Officials are blaming the attack on a militant group linked to isis. This is Mohamed Abdel fatah, the imam of the al rawdah sufi mosque, which was attacked on friday. Yesterdays sermon was on mohammed, the prophet of humanity. The week before that was on mohammed, the prophet for mercy. I believe these are two issues that the entire world, whether muslim or nonmuslim, need to implement most of mercy, forgiveness, and humanity. A religion based on few minute he will never condone violence or aggression such as this. Amy over the last year, isislinked militants in egypt have also repeatedly targeted coptic christians, bombing two coptic churches and opening fire on a bus headed to a monastery. Within hours after fridays attack, egyptian president Abdul Fattah Alsisi appeared on television, vowing revenge for the attack. Only minutes later, egyptian warplanes carried out multiple airstrikes in the desert of the Sinai Peninsula. The military says they were targeting militants fleeing the attack. Well go to egypt for more on the attack after headlines. And washington, d. C. , theres chaos of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as to people are battling for control of the Consumer Protection agency. It was created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. After announcing his resignation earlier in the month, on friday, former director Richard Cordray resigned and appointed his former chief of staff Leandra English to be his successor. A President Trump intervened unexpectedly announcing he is appointing as budget director Mick Mulvaney to head the agency. While serving as the South Carolina congressman, mulvaney voted to eliminate the agency entirely. Leandra english has sued President Trump over his appointment of mulvaney. That creatednk act the agency specifically calls for the Deputy Director to become acting director when the agencys top spot is vacant. We will have more on the battle at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau later in the broadcast. Lawmakers are returning to capitol hill today where they are facing escalating pressure to reveal which lawmakers have used taxpayer money to pay out at least 17 million in settlements for sexual and racial harassment discrimination. While many members of congress are pushing to pass a resolution to require mandatory Sexual Harassment awareness training, california Congressmember Jackie Speier is introducing legislation to make all Sexual Harassment settlements public. The bill would also end a mandatory coolingoff period before accusers can file Sexual Harassment claims in congress. Michigan congressman john conyers is stepping aside as the ranking democratic lawmaker on the house judiciary committee, after multiple women accused him of Sexual Harassment and misconduct. Conyers reportedly paid out 27,000 to one woman who alleged she was fired from his washington staff because she rejected his sexual advances. The news of the settlement was first reported by buzzfeed after a white supremacist blogger gave them the documents. Conyers denies the accusations. Meanwhile, minnesota democratic senator al franken says he will not resign from the senate, but is returning to capitol hill today feeling embarrassed and ashamed after three women accused him of groping them without their consent. This all comes as President Trump continues to offer support for Alabama Republican Senate candidate roy moore, who has been accused of sexually harassing or assaulting at least nine women when they were children or teenagers. On sunday, trump slammed moores opponent, doug jones, tweeting the last thing we need in alabama and the u. S. Senate is a Schumer Pelosi puppet. Trump himself has been accused of Sexual Harassment and assault by at least 16 women. The Journalism Schools at Arizona State university and the university of kentucky have rescinded awards given to charlie rose, who was fired by cbs after nearly a dozen women accused him of Sexual Harassment and assault. He was also fired as well from pbs and bloomberg, they severed their contracts with him and his program. The dean othe arizonas Walter Cronkite school of journalism and Mass Communication said the actions victimized young women much like those who make up the overwhelming majority of cronkite students young women who deserve to enter workplaces that reward them for their hard work, intelligence and creativity and where they do not have to fear for their safety or dignity. Women across the world took to the streets on saturday on the annual International Day for the elimination of violence against women. Crowds poured into the streets in peru, mexico, france, sweden, spain, mozambique, and other countries to protest femicide, rape, and Sexual Harassment. In turkey, thousands of women clashed with police in istanbul. Thisey dont even let march happen. They cant even tolerate this. They dont want the women to be free. But we will not leave the streets as long as we can. Needsst, the government to stop discriminating policy. Women will always say no to this. Amy in south africa, the Supreme Court of appeals has more than doubled the prison seence for olympic and paralympic runner oscar pistorius, who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. The sentence has now been increased from six years to 15 years. Back in washington, d. C. , more than 100 Senior Foreign Service officers have left the state Department Since President Trump took office, in what appears to be a forced exodus carried out by secretary of state rex tillerson. Among those to have departed was the state departments chief of security, bill miller, who left after tillerson repeatedly refused to meet with him. Miller is one of the most powerful people of the state department, yet he was reportedly forced to cite a law requiring him to be allowed to speak with the secretary of state before tillerson was willing to meet with him for five minutes. We move now to pope francis visiting burma, amid the Burmese Militarys ongoing Ethnic Cleansing Campaign against Rohingya Muslims in the majority buddhist nation. More than 600,000 rohingyas have fled burma into neighboring bangladesh amid a military campaign of murder, rape, torture, and forcible displacement. Pope francis is slated to meet today with the Burmese Military leader min aung hlaing, who has Sole Authority over the armed forces, and who is likely planning to run for president in 2020. On tuesday pope francis will meet with burmas de facto leader, aung san suu kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner whose relative silence in the face of the Ethnic Cleansing Campaign has deeply undercut her international standing. This all comes only days after bangladesh and burma signed a deal to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Refugees back to burma. This is abdul mannan, a rohingya refugee speaking from a bangladeshi refugee camp. We ought to be returning to our own country, but were one condition we rohingya people want our own nationality to be recognized there. If we are not recognized by the government there, then we will not go back from here. Amy in honduras, millions of people went to the polls sunday to vote in a contested president ial election that his the authoritarian conservative president against the. Rogressive alliances candidate he isthis morning, leading the president by about five percentage points. Both candidates have claimed victory, although the results have not been fully counted. In syria, dozens of civilians have been killed in the last 24 hours by shelling and airstrikes reportedly carried out by the Syrian Regime and russia. The attacks occurred in the isiscontrolled Eastern Province of deir az zor and the rebelcontrolled district of eastern ghouta, outside the capital damascus. Meanwhile, the pentagon is slated to announce in the coming days that there are already 2000 u. S. Soldiers inside syria. The pentagon has previously claimed there are only 500 u. S. Soldiers inside syria. This comes as the u. S. Is reportedly ending its strategy of arming Syrian Kurdish on thes, who remain ground fighting. In pakistan, the federal law minister has resigned after weeks of escalating protests in better homes gardens, and allrecipes. The Koch Brothers invested 650 million in the deal. Black workers at teslas fremont, california, factory have filed a classaction lawsuit accusing tesla of being a hotbed for racist behavior. A former African American tesla worker says he was routinely called the nword while working at the factory, and that after he complained, he was fired for not having a positive attitude. Tesla is also facing lawsuits accusing the company of discriminating against lgbt workers and older workers. And in massachusetts, members of native american tribes from across new england gathered in plymouth on thursday to observe the 48th annual national day of mourning. As many across the country were celebrating thanksgiving, the native americans were gathering to remember the genocide and colonialism brought by european settlers, who established one of the First Permanent settlements in north america in plymouth. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Egypt has declared three days of National Mourning after at least people were killed in an attack 300 on a crowded sufi mosque in egypts Sinai Peninsula on friday. Egyptian officials are calling it the deadliest terror attack in egypts modern history. More than two dozen attackers wearing military combat uniforms detonated a bomb inside the mosque, opened fire with machine guns on fleeing worshipers, and set cars ablaze to stop people from being able to escape. Among the victims were at least 27 children. Officials are blaming the attack on a militant group linked to isis. This is Mohamed Abdel fatah, the imam of the al rawdah sufi mosque, describing fridays attack. Aut two minutes after i climbed onto the platform, i heard was sounded like an explosion outside the mosque and then some people came in sight firing at all of the worshipers. Of force as soon as people for the firing, they all started to run. Some climbed onto the platform. I saw them felt on top of each other. In the assailants were hitting anybody and everybody. Anybody was breathing. I did not see their numbers. I did not what they look like. I could only deal their presence inside the mosque. Amy over the last year, isislinked militants in egypt have also repeatedly targeted coptic christians, bombing two coptic churches and opening fire on a bus headed to a monastery. Within hours after fridays attack, egyptian president Abdul Fattah Alsisi appeared on television, vowing revenge for the attack. Only minutes later, egyptian warplanes carried out multiple airstrikes in the desert of the Sinai Peninsula. The military says they were targeting militants fleeing the attack. The military and Police Return security and stability with absolute power in a short giving of time. We will respond to this attack with brutal strength to encounter these terrorist extremists. Amy for more, we go to cairo where we are joined by sharif abdel kouddous. Shreve, welcome back to democracy now can you lay out for us what you understand what happened on friday and what has been the response since . Is as you describe it. About 25 to 30 militant arrived as the friday prayer was taking place. In for will drive vehicles, position themselves outside the main door in the 12 windows of the mosque and set off explosives in the mosque come at the began opening fire on the worshipers who were trying to flee. They torched several cars outside to prevent people from escaping. They fired on ambulances that had arrived on scene. We have this horrific death toll of 305 people killed. This very committed really so this very committed very highly correlated attack. It was to the Islamic State as being responsible for this, although there has not been an official claim of responsibility. It looks like their largely to reasons why this mosque was targeted. In the past year, as the islamic sufis in thegeted area, killing a scholar, beheading him and posting pictures of it online, there was an isis commander also who singled out that area of sinai as being one of the places where sufis live, the group wanted or intended to eradicate. There have been reports that have come out now that militants have stormed the village several times as recently as last week, warning the residence not to allow sufi rituals to take place but also not to coordinate with the police and the army. The tribe from that area are in conflict with the islamic way. Aat also looks like it was main motivating factor for them to attack this area. With all of these threats being made against this village, the resident them selves have reportedly set up their own civilian checkpoints to try and protect themselves. And even so, the attack seems to have taken place with relative ease by the militants. We have this very bloody death toll. This is the village of only 2500 people. Youre talking about nearly one in 10 people from this village, from this community being killed. Buried are there being bil a mass graves. Amy can you talk to us about this religious group . You shouldnt even really say a sufi mosque. Most people would not identify in that way here. This was a mosque that was nonsufid by sufis and s alike. Muslims. Not a sect of they are not a minority group. They are an integral part of mainstream sunni islam. S have beenes, sufi excepted as mainstream islam. Many leading theologians are sufi. The head of egypts top Islamic Authority is sufi. So colleagues calling it a sufi mosque is a bit misleading. This is also a fact im sure the attackers also new they were killing sunni muslims and this is why this is very shocking that the first militant attack on a muslim congregation marks kind of a new phase in who they are targeting